"While organizations have beefed up their security programs and most have initiated at least some plans to respond to attacks, many are still behind the curve on proactively monitoring the threat landscape and potential threat actors.". (via relativity.com/blog)

"The justice system has a tendency to move slowly. This centuries-old problem hearkens back to Shakespearean times, with The Bard himself mentioning “the law’s delay” as one of life’s greatest disappointments in Hamlet’s famed “To be, or not to be” soliloquy". (via lawtechnologytoday.org)

"Admittedly there are some functions of our jobs AI can probably handle. Basic contracts, wills, and bills of sale are all ripe for AI intervention. And frankly, since it has been a number of years since I took my Trusts & Estates class, AI may even do a better job drafting a will than I could. But even if AI continues to improve to the point it can write flawless case briefs, I am firmly convinced they will never be able to master my chief role as in-house counsel, that of translator".(via abovethelaw.com)

"Rather than return the UFEDs to Cellebrite so they can be properly decommissioned, it appears police or other individuals who’ve acquired the machines are flogging them and failing to properly wipe them. Cybersecurity researchers are now warning that valuable case data and powerful police hacking tools could have leaked as a result". (via forbes.com)

"Recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) point to an age where forgery of documents, pictures, audio recordings, videos, and online identities will occur with unprecedented ease. AI is poised to make high-fidelity forgery inexpensive and automated, leading to potentially disastrous consequences for democracy, security, and society. As an AI researcher, I’m here to sound the alarm, and to suggest a partial solution". (via hbr.org)

"An organized lawyer is a productive lawyer. A productive lawyer is a more profitable lawyer. So there’s your motivation for getting organized. Although you may not consider yourself blessed with natural organizational skills and it may not be something you learned in law school, there are plenty of tools available to help you get organized."(via americanbar.org)

"Trained on eight million web pages, OpenAI's new system — called the GPT-2 — is billed as the next generation of predictive text. The AI is said to write authentic-sounding prose that could fool humans, which has dangerous repercussions when it comes to the mass production of disinformation.". (via cbc.ca)

"Microsoft is adding a very useful feature to its Excel mobile apps for iOS and Android. It allows Excel users to take a photo of a printed data table and convert it into a fully editable table in the app.". (via theverge.com)

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